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 Fall Migration. (continued) 



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The Bird and its Haunts. With the Redstart we reach the acme 

 of Warbler activity. If a bird exists which is more constantly in 

 motion and in a greater variety of ways, I have yet to see it. But it 

 is at feeding that the bird excels ; not the somewhat sedate, pendulum- 

 like wing-feeding of the true Flycatcher who, sitting quietly in wait, 

 swings out from his perch, makes his capture and returns to his 

 starting point, but a mad series of darts and dives and whirls, ot 

 onward rushes and as sudden stops, which yield not one insect but 

 many and, at the same time, display the bird's brilliant plumage in a 

 manner to set at defiance all laws of aggressive coloration. With what 

 dainty grace he spreads his tail, half opens his wings, and pirouettes 



